As your blog gets more and more posts you will inevitably create more categories to keep them organised. Eventually your categories will take up more room on your screen and scroll across many pages. I work on one blog which has over 350 categories and with this number the standard Wordpress category list is the height of three or four screens - any content below this is lost!
Folding Category List for Wordpress is a plug-in that will only show the top level categories and the current sub-categories. This will save a lot of space on your sidebars for other widgets. Additionally, you can animate the menu as either a drop down horizontal menu or an accordion style vertical menu, both with cool jQuery animations.
Main Features
- jQuery Animation: Use Suckerfish or Superfish to animate drop down menus! - js included in plugin, just activate from control panel!
- jQuery Animation: Use Simple jQuery Accordion to animate vertical menus! - js included in plugin, just activate from control panel!
- SEO friendly: Add nofollow and descriptions to links.
- Multi-widget: Have as many lists as you need.
- Multi-category: If posts are in multiple categories, you can still control which one to expand, or expand all of them.
- International: Plugin is compatible with translation plugins (qTranslate).
- Control: Change order by category name, id, description, post count or use My Category Order plugin for total control.
- Pages: Expand category list on pages using custom fields.
- Style: There are lots of different options for CSS tags allowing designers to create unique menus.
Configuration
This plugin can be configured via a new settings page which can be found under Settings->FoCaL. All the settings are now documented and explained on this screen.
More details can be found in on the plugin homepage:
http://timtrott.co.uk/wordpress-folding-category-list/
The folding category plugin is very easy to install and use.
- Upload files to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
- Visit Settings->FoCaL and configure settings
- Add the widget to the sidebar from Appearance->Widgets
- Save changes
- For more in-depth installation, customisation and CSS examples please visit the widget homepage.
Upgrade Notice
Since multi-widget administration has been overhauled, it may be necessary to reconfigure settings definitions should the plugin not be able to automatically do this for you. In most cases all you have to do is simply "save" the widget in the widgets screen and this will be enough to update the database.
If you have used the PHP code to add the widget to your page, you will have to make a slight amendment. The parameter "number" in the $instance array has been renamed to "definition". Please refer to the plugin page for detail on PHP usage.
The change was required as the old system was a bit backwards, having to select/create a "setting definition" from the widget and configure it in the admin page. This has been reversed, so that now you create and configure from the admin screen and just select the appropriate one from the widget.
Sorry for the inconvenience this may cause, but it'll be better in the long run and a requirement for some things I have in the pipeline for this plugin.
For full version history and older versions please refer to the plugin homepage.
- Fixed bug with WordPress 3.5